Radeon 9600 Gets VPU Error?

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br3tt0 0

My Radeon 9600 with the original Radeon 9600 drivers sometimes just "crashes".

I could be using my computer, just like now, and all of a sudden the screen goes black (like the monitor is turned off) and it takes like 15 seconds thenit turns on and give me a VPU error. It asks me if I wanna tell ATi about the error (like in WinXP). It then wants me to restart.

Is this a common problem? Like did they release a bad bunch of drivers?

Has anyone else had this error? And has gone around it successfully?

Any help would be appreciated. And please no comments like "Buy a 9800 Pro" or "Get a new card" ;)

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excessdl 0

i just got a powercolor radeon 9600xt from newegg... it seems that only the drivers work that came on the cd.. installed the latest drivers from ati and it takes a few minutes then the screen shuts off(like power save mode) only i've never been patient enough to wait for it to come back, i just shutdown blind, then get into safemode, uninstall the new drivers and reinstall the old.. but i want to be able to play the latest games as they should be played... my case is cooled great, and i have a good power supply.. so it sounds like we have about the same problem, but that rules out the power and the temp, i think..

please check follow setting step by step : driver: please update VGA driver to newest version from our/ATi's website , and you need to remove all other VGA driver in 'add/remove program' before you update VGA driver . setting change : please disable 'fastwrite' feature in section 'smartgart' of aTi advanced display properities . in some case , please try to change the AGP speed from 8X to 4X . special way : in some case , user have resolve this status by change AGP voltage from 1.5V to 1.6V , please make sure that your mainboard have supported this function .

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br3tt0 0

i just got a powercolor radeon 9600xt from newegg... it seems that only the drivers work that came on the cd.. installed the latest drivers from ati and it takes a few minutes then the screen shuts off(like power save mode) only i've never been patient enough to wait for it to come back, i just shutdown blind, then get into safemode, uninstall the new drivers and reinstall the old.. but i want to be able to play the latest games as they should be played... my case is cooled great, and i have a good power supply.. so it sounds like we have about the same problem, but that rules out the power and the temp, i think..